News tagged with information

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It’s a method for representing an irregular signal — such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that conne ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past

Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial transpose’, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Quantum internet: Physicists build first elementary quantum network

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics realizes a first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers engineer molecular magnets to act as long-lived qubits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some physicists today are investigating the possibility of using molecular magnets as information storage units in future quantum computers. Molecular magnets are molecules whose magnetic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Two stopped light pulses interact with each other

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated the interaction of two motionless light pulses. Because the stopped light pulses have a long interaction time, it increases the ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Two molecules communicate via single photons

Scientists realize one of the most elementary and oldest "gedanken" experiments in modern physics, namely, excitation of a single molecule with a single photon. This paves the way for further investigations ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission

Error-correcting codes are one of the triumphs of the digital age. They’re a way of encoding information so that it can be transmitted across a communication channel — such as an optical fiber o ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Quantum copies do new tricks

One of the strange features of quantum information is that, unlike almost every other type of information, it cannot be perfectly copied. For example, it is impossible to take a single photon and make a number of photons ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Game of go: A complex network

Could computers ever beat the best go players? Although unthinkable at this stage, this could soon become possible, thanks to CNRS theorists. For the first time, two scientists from the Theoretical Physics ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 31

Keeping it together: Protecting entanglement from decoherence and sudden death

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decoherence can be metaphorically seen as a quantum fall from grace: When quantum bits, or qubits, are in superposition – such as a single qubit simultaneously having both 1 and 0 values ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

How quantum physics could make 'The Matrix' more efficient

Researchers have discovered a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers. The work, by researchers based in Singapore and the UK, implies that a Matrix-like ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Political leaders play key role in how worried Americans are by climate change: study

More than extreme weather events and the work of scientists, it is national political leaders who influence how much Americans worry about the threat of climate change, new research finds.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 175

Information

Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.

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